A reversible reduction in size.
The acquisition of something, generally negative.
A period of economic decline or negative growth.
Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.
A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are lost or reduced, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process.
The process of contracting a disease.
A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
A shortening of a muscle during its use.
Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches forming ⅛ fathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm.
The space of all linear combinations of something.
A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
A small space or a brief portion of time.
The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps.
wingspan of a plane or bird
The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length.
To extend through the distance between or across.
To extend through (a time period).
To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.
To generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.
To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.